An interesting CTA ride. Blog: 6

Yesterday I had taken a ride on the red line from roosevelt to addison. Because of the construction, instead of going into the subway, the red line took over the brown/green lines so the entire time, we were above ground. An older black woman and a younger mexican man sit down near me. She has been explaining to him as we passed each stop what it used to look like. We passed near van buren and michigan and she had explained that this is where her mother worked, and it is now a shopping district. I thought it was interesting when we were passing and she would describe buildings and how as soon as we rode near the fullerton stop, it was obvious that the people around there were the 'people with money' and how the buildings looked 'rich.' She was talking about going up towards rogers park but instead she wanted to show her friend, who wasn't familiar with chicago, all the interesting places to be. They ended up getting off at the more hip area of town, belmont stop.


i found this picture of 'old chicago,' where she was describing where her mother used to work. it was near where the old sears was as well.